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Libero digs way to record
Her alternate jersey may cause Jamie Lundstrom to stick out on the volleyball court. But when you add in her petite frame, the libero can't be missed.
Standing at 5-foot-5-inch , the senior has become a deceptive tool for Belmont's defense the past four seasons, becoming the all-time career leader in digs at Belmont.
"She has used her size to her advantage. She is able to run to and defend balls that maybe some other players wouldn't be able to," said Belmont coach Deane Webb. "Her ability to see the game and react to it have been huge for her."
On Sept. 6 against Boise State in the Wildcat Classic, Lundstrom reached the defensive milestone, surpassing the previous record of 1,387 digs set by Megan Clements in 2010.
"It was incredible. I got to make that goal in front of all my family and friends in Chicago," Lundstrom said. "That was really exciting. I worked really hard for it."
Webb believes that topping this record speaks well of her work ethic the past few seasons.
"It's a great honor and accomplishment. There have been a number of great defenders that have come before her. For her to do that over a long period of career just shows the level player that she's been consistently is a great accomplishment for her,"Webb said.
While she came in late during her freshman year, Lundstrom dominated on the court in her sophomore season. She was named the 2011 Atlantic Sun Defensive Player of the Year after she led the conference with 522 digs and also recorded a Belmont single-season record 421 hitting percentage.
The libero continued her success on the court last year during Belmont's first season in the Ohio Valley Conference. Lundstrom set the single-season school record for digs with 652 digs and was named to the OVC All-Tournament Team after a career high 36 digs in a tournament game against SEMO.
"Her quickness is just absolutely huge at that position and the ability to extend rallies to make the opponent hit the ball," Webb said. "She can defend and make them swing one more time. Her speed helps tremendously in her abilities to defend."
In her senior campaign, Lundstrom has recorded 321 digs in 20 matches played so far, accounting for almost 30 percent of the team's total digs.
"I've always relied on my speed. I feel like that is where I am my best. In circumstances where I need to get to the ball quicker is definitely my strength," she said.
Prior to coming to Nashville, Lundstrom grew up in La Grange, Illinois, where she began playing the game of volleyball at age nine with help from her mother.
"My mom signed me up for a little kid's volleyball camp. From then on, I fell in love with the sport," Lundstrom said. "She signed me up for club volleyball ball and from then on I've been playing."
While the position was still fairly new in the sport, Lundstrom began playing libero at the 12-years-old, a position that continues to remain exciting for the senior.
"It's just an exciting position because the game changes every time you're out there. It's definitely never dull," Lundstrom said.
Before she became the all-time digs leader in program history, Lundstrom played for First Alliance Volleyball Club, who won consecutive American Volleyball Coaches Association junior volleyball championships.
It was until she received an email from Webb inviting her for a visit that Lundstrom became aware of Belmont.
"Coach was watching one of my volleyball games in Orlando, Florida. He sent me a very nice email about coming to visit," the senior said. "I instantly fell in love with the campus, team, and program."
Upon Lundstrom's acceptance to Belmont, she made an almost immediate impact.
"Jamie is a terrific athlete, very fast and quick to the ball. She came in having already played at a high level," Webb said. "So I think that really helped her maybe starting ahead of some players who were learning when they first got here."
Webb also believes that Lundstrom's leadership on the volleyball court will serve her well beyond Belmont.
"She's as good of a player as she is a person. She's a great teammate and encourager to people around her. It's one of her bigger strengths that will carry her not just during volleyball but beyond and into life," Webb said.
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Why School Schedules Should Be Released Earlier
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Degen Naldoza, Online Entertainment Editor
The infamous bright orange schedule change request form is a first week of school nightmare that Miramonte students, counselors, and teachers are all too familiar with. When summer comes to an end and students, teachers, and staff prepare for the school year ahead, students often face daunting schedule changes as soon as they receive their classes. To combat this hectic and unnecessary dilemma in future years, Miramonte's administration must release schedules a week before school starts in order to get students into their proper classes by the first day.
Generally, students receive their schedule on Mats Day, the day before school starts. According to Miramonte counselor Erika Vasquez, this method was originally put in place so that students wouldn't try to switch out of their classes before school started and counselors could focus on other aspects of the back-to-school process. However, this strategy puts students at a disadvantage if they are placed in the wrong classes and need to switch into alternatives. On top of this, the process to actually transfer out of a class takes around a week, putting students behind in their replacement classes once they transfer in, and adding to the preexisting stress of school starting up again. "It is the third week of school and I am still going into the counselors office to change around my schedule. I was put into classes I never even signed up for, and I'm now behind in a lot of my classes," senior Kate Swan said.
If schedules were released a week before school started, the load of schedule request changes at the beginning of the school year would be lessened. Counselors would be able to work with the students whose schedules were incorrect before school started, allowing students and counselors to return to school without the stress of frantically changing schedules. Within the first few weeks of school, the counselors could help transfer students out of classes that they genuinely didn't like or weren't interested in. This would not only be easier on the administration but would also help students settle into their classes within the first week and not be behind.
This year, many students experienced extreme schedule mix-ups and had problems transferring into alternative classes. In a normal year, there are around 150 to 200 students who request a schedule change, which counselors and teachers have to accommodate. However, with the vast amount of schedule dilemmas this year, due to conflicts with the new administration, there was a scramble in the office. "I received around eighty emails a day within the first week from students trying to switch around their schedules, and I am only in charge of a quarter of the students at Miramonte," Vasquez said.
If students were able to receive their schedules in advance, there would be more time to correct them without placing as much pressure on counselors. "I think getting our schedules a week before school started would be a great idea. I personally had a lot of trouble trying to switch out of one of my classes and was super behind when I was finally placed in the right one, and this would definitely help solve the problem," sophomore William Hoshimoto said.
This simple fix could act as a more efficient approach to the prevalent scheduling problem. Not only would counselors be able to spread out their workload and more efficiently get students into the classes that they desire, but students wouldn't be as stressed about the issues with their schedules. Fewer students would fall behind, and teachers wouldn't have to focus their time on the students who transfer into their classes multiple days or weeks into the year. Overall, an earlier release of schedules would solve the problems that our school currently faces regarding the hectic environment of scheduling, and thus the administration should move up their schedule release date.
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Q: Postman not working with JWT authentication? I'm trying to build a POC for Postman, converting some API tests from Powershell.
Here is one such call:
Invoke-RestMethod -Method Post -Uri $getSiteListUri -Headers $headers

Headers consists of uuid and Authorization (JWT).
Putting this into Postman with No Auth, and the same headers generates a Success: False response.
Things I've tried:
-Adding "Bearer " to Authorization
-Removing no-cache and Postman-Token from the header in settings.

What other steps do I need for this?

A: Two problems I was facing: one personal, the other server related.
First I was manually copying the JWT from powershell output which inserted spaces where new lines occurred. To resolve that, I used:
$header.Authorization | clip

Second, after checking server logs, there seems to be an inherent problem that regularly occurs. Some calls result in ""Unable to download Json Web Keys from ****". Even in Powershell, this error occurs sometimes. Might be due to hangups on the server, slow responses, heavy load. Will have to check with the teams responsible.

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Wijngaarden (in de volksmond: Wingerde) is een Nederlands dorp in de provincie Zuid-Holland dat tot de gemeente Molenlanden behoort. Dit langgerekte, landelijke dorp ligt vlak bij Sliedrecht, heeft een oppervlakte van 638 hectare en telde per 1 juli 2012 246 woningen en per   inwoners.

Van 1817 tot 1986 was Wijngaarden een zelfstandige gemeente. Daarna ging het op in de gemeente Graafstroom. Van 2013 tot 2019 behoorde het tot de toenmalige gemeente Molenwaard.

Wijngaarden is het laagstgelegen dorp in de Alblasserwaard. Tijdens de watersnood van 1953 kwam het dorp onder water te staan. Er is een watersteen in een gevel van een huis in de Dorpsstraat geplaatst als aandenken.

Geschiedenis
Wijngaarden vormde met Ruigbroek (ook Ruygbroek, Ruijgbroek, Ruybroek of Ruijbroek), al voor 1283 een zogenaamde heerlijkheid. De heerlijkheid is onder meer in het bezit geweest van de heren van Brederode. Godschalk Oem, prominente voorouder van het geslacht Oomen, die in 1451 de heerlijkheid wist te verwerven nam als eerste de naam Van Wijngaarden aan. In later tijd was de patriottenleider Cornelis Johan de Lange vrijheer van Wijngaerden en Ruygbroek. Hij stond bekend als De Lange van Wijngaerden en was, als commandant van het Goudse Vrijkorps, verantwoordelijk voor de aanhouding van Prinses Wilhelmina bij Bonrepas en haar gedwongen verblijf bij Goejanverwellesluis.

Oudheidskamer
Een oudheidskamer was gevestigd in de voormalige raadkamer van Wijngaarden en werd beheerd door de Historische Vereniging Binnenwaard.  De gehele verzameling is verhuisd naar Boerderij Gijbeland in Bleskensgraaf. Dit is nu het museum van de Historische Vereniging Binnenwaard.

Relatie met de Friese gemeente Het Bildt
Op 22 februari 1505 sloot hertog George van Saksen een overeenkomst met de gebroeders Dirk, Floris, en Jacob van Wijngaarden, en Thomas Beukelaar, de schoonzoon van een van hen. Deze Zuid-Hollandse Heren zouden de kwelders van Het Bildt laten indijken tegen vrijstelling van pacht gedurende het eerste jaar. Zij zetten arbeiders uit onder meer Wijngaarden aan het werk. Er kwam een kaarsrechte weg, met drie dorpjes. Een daarvan werd Wijngaarden genoemd. Dit nieuwe Wijngaarden vormde een rooms-katholieke parochie die aan de apostel Jakobus was gewijd. Na verloop van tijd ging de naam van de parochie (Sint Jacobiparochie) over op het dorp en verdween de verwijzing naar het oorspronkelijke Wijngaarden.

Geboren in Wijngaarden
 Herbertus Bikker (1915-2008), oorlogsmisdadiger
 Sara Kroos (1981), cabaretière

Zie ook
 Lijst van burgemeesters van Wijngaarden
 Lijst van rijksmonumenten in Wijngaarden
 Lijst van gemeentelijke monumenten in Wijngaarden

Externe link
 Klankbordgroep Wijngaarden

Geografie van Molenlanden
Plaats in Zuid-Holland
Voormalige gemeente in Zuid-Holland

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Q: The reasoning behind the trajectory of the path object traced to be a parabola when in the coveyor belt zone Suppose we have a object moving in $y$-direction with some non-zero velocity $v_1$ , it encounters a conveyor belt which is moving in $x$ direction with some non zero speed $v_2$ , question was what would the trajectory of the object looks like when it start moving on the belt , assuming its not frictionless. Given coefficient of friction is u.

My idea was to check the velocity vs time graph of the motion going on, the rate of change of slope would give the acceleration of the object in that graph . But actually it turns out its difficult because its a $2D$ problem so velocity has two components . In case of $1D$ motion $v-t$ graph was easy to made since we only have to worry about direction/magnitude  of v single component only . From this all i thought of then making a 3D graph having $v_x ,v_y , t$ as $x ,y, z$ axis respectively.

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*Now in this graph the slope partial derivative of x ,y wrt to z  will gives us the acceleration components $x$ and $y$ .
Problem becomes this :

We have initially a vector $v_1$ in the y axis of that $3D$ graph and then we are known that it will finally comes to $v_2$($x$-axis in the $3D$ coordinates) of the conveyor belt since finally friction needs to be stop acting . But now from all this i wasnt able to conclude much about the trajectory at all , maybe i would need to solve a differential or stuff but maybe it can guessed from the 3D coordinates itself .

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*Note : i just got to know that its better to use the 2D vx-vy coordinate system instead of 3D with time factor. Anyone can tell why the vx-vy coordinate system is better to use for understanding the trajectory than the 3D , i am not getting motivation for it.


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Once again: Interesting and marginally useful Internet crap
Posted: July 17, 2017 in Christianity, Islam, Language Use, Politics, Religion
Tags: Black Lives Matter, Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Fundamentalist Christianity, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, Hoaxes, Insane Clown Posse, Josh Duggar, Juggalo, Postmodernism, Raw Story, Saudi Arabia, Skeptic magazine, TLC, Toby Willis, Yiannopoulos
Here's the latest installment in our ever-popular Internet Crap series, which mixes links to sick and absurd but amusing crap with links to useful crap. Enjoy!
Skeptic Magazine has a great piece on a new successful hoax of a postmodernist academic journal. The piece begins:
The androcentric scientific and meta-scientific evidence that the penis is the male reproductive organ is considered overwhelming and largely uncontroversial.
". . .We used this preposterous sentence to open a 'paper' consisting of 3,000 words of utter nonsense posing as academic scholarship. Then a peer-reviewed academic journal in the social sciences accepted and published it."
Walking disease vector Milo Yiannopoulos's publicists claimed, to Publishers Weekly, that his new self-published book Dangerous sold 100,000 copies during its first week. It turns out, according to industry reporting firm Nielsen BookScan, that it was only about 18,000. (To avoid misunderstanding, please understand that when we refer to Yiannopoulos as a "walking disease vector," we're referring to emotional, not physical, illness.)
Raw Story reports that "Conservative Christian reality TV star Toby Willis gets 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to child rape." What channel was carrying the Willis program? You guessed it! TLC. Raw Story further reports that "Willis' rape case is the third sex scandal that plagued TLC. In 2014, the network first canceled 'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo' after Mama June rekindled a romance with a convicted sex offender. In 2015, it axed '19 Kids and Counting' following Josh Duggar's molestation scandal."
Well, this is a first. The Saudi government is usually in the news for persecuting atheists, committing judicial mass murder, forbidding women to drive (among other worse affronts), and committing war crimes in Yemen, but it's come up with a new, amusing, and amazing offense it can use to hammer its citizens: excessive butt kissing.
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Finally, the headline here (almost) says it all: "Juggalo March on Washington: Insane Clown Posse fans to demand end to 'gang' designation."
For now, that's all folks.
Skeptic Reviews
Posted: September 10, 2016 in Atheism, Book Reviews, Science, Skepticism
Tags: Chris Edwards, Skeptic magazine
Chris Edwards, author of Spiritual Snake Oil: Fads and Fallacies in Popular Culture and (under the pseudonym S.C. Hitchcock) Disbelief 101: A Young Person's Guide to Atheism, has two reviews in the new issue of Skeptic magazine.
In the new issue, Chris reviews The Invention of Science A New History of the Scientific Revolution, by David Wootton, and The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind, by A.C. Grayling.
To introduce readers to Chris's work, we've put up sample chapters in pdf form from both Spiritual Snake Oil and Disbelief 101 on the See Sharp Press web site.
Of late, Chris has been concentrating on works for professionals in the education field, but he's now working on an as-yet-to-be-titled science fiction novel which we hope to publish in late 2017.


So…this week was mundane…no ups, no downs, no hills, no valleys! I think I like mundane! I hope that's the right meaning for mundane other than the one I know from Harry Potter.
I am reading these…and really enjoying them. I am not reading them all at the same time but rather working my way through each one…one at a time…although I have started each one sort of randomly.
Den and I worked out inside almost every day…today I walked steady and hard for 31 minutes. My problem is stamina…it is truly elusive on some days. My beloved primary care doctor says that is how it will be for me for a long time. I still get tired and I still get cold but I love that I can sleep long and hard. I think I sleep like a cat! I feel really good but that kind of scares me.
The weather and workers forced us to stay home this week but we made sure we got our work outs in.
Really only our field trip to Costco and I snagged some cool chillax pants at Nordstrom's. They were half off! I can live in pants like these.
I made this amazing Caesar Salad Dressing today. The chef was on the Today Show yesterday and this dressing had every Caesar ingredient in it…lemon juice, fresh garlic, anchovies ( so mashed you don't really taste them), Parmisano Reggiano cheese…I was able to use some of my giant bag from Costco…anyway you mix all of the ingredients in a food processor with a cup of Greek yogurt…and…voila! You get an amazing dressing with literally no fat. I am making the Pioneer Woman's Chicken Tortilla Soup tomorrow…I made something with gnocchi and sauce in a pan earlier this week and we had a lot of local veg…green beans and cucumbers and cabbage…the fresh cabbage was stir fried with ground bison and a sauce of soy and sriracha…yum! And I made big fat oatmeal cookies…I loaded them with dried cranberries and chocolate and walnuts! Oh…and I will make this roasted cauliflower, too!
Why oh why am I suddenly obsessed with the Hallmark Channel? Something called The Gourmet Detective has caught my eye…and then there is Below Deck, Project Runway, Dancing With The Stars And Survivor…I am a hopeless TV junkie! Not to mention Real Housewives, Flipping Out and Bull! Sigh!
I love Hallmark, too! I've never watched the Gourmet Detective, though, except it's on in the background sometimes.
I love the series by Julie Mulhern, but don't have Cold as Ice yet. The Spring Girls is another one on my wish list.
All of your food looks yummy! Thanks for sharing, and have a great weekend.
My granddaughter was here for a good part of the day, using the computer, so I'm getting a late start.
What fun to have her there! Have a great week end!
I live comfy pants like that too! Her soup looks good, need to try it.
It's a really good soup…easy to make and tastes like eating tacos!
It might take a little while but I know you'll get your stamina back!
I think so, too, it just shocks me when I don't have it!
I'm so glad you're getting good sleep.
Your stamina will come back- it just takes time. You are doing a great job keeping at it. Bravo!
Yeah…stamina is a slippery slope for me…but it's ok! I will just keep working at getting stronger and stronger!
You go on the walking! Yay! Love those joggers.


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Something incrediBULL just happened right here in Durham, North Carolina. Today a little girl and her family opened up a book. Not just any book. She opened up the 1 millionth book that Book Harvest has put in a child's hands.
1 million books given to children in a powerful impact statement and it all started with a community of friends, a dream of getting books to children and a bit of space in a garage.
For anyone doing the math that's an average of 391 books gifted to children a day over the last 7 years. Can you BULLieve that?!
How can you get involved with helping Book Harvest give away another million books?
Whether you're giving or receiving, Book Harvest wants you to be a part of building literacy in the Bull City. You can give in the form of time, money and/or books, but they also need families to open their home to free books.
For families who want books for their children simply stop by one of Book Harvest's 11 Community Book Banks in North Carolina (5 of which are right here in Durham) and let your child pick out the books they want to take home. It's that simple and it's free. Daniele stressed that its bookS plural. Your little one can pick out all the books their little arms can hold.
More information on family book options and the Community Book Bank locations can be found HERE. Book Harvest even has a program for newborns to receive books called Book Babies. That may be too adoraBULL.
Local organizations who work with children Durham, Orange and Chatham counties can apply to get books provided by Book Harvest as well. Best of all it's a super simple form that's easily accessiBULL on their website. No hoops to jump through. Fill out a brief form and press send. It's that simple. Book Harvest clearly wants to make literacy a stepping stone to success not a hurdle to overcome.
For individuals and organizations looking to support Book Harvest, there several ways you can help give the lifelong gift of literacy. You can donate new and gently used children's books, or as we call to call them young bull brain fuel. Stop by one of their dozens of Community Book Bank sites, many right here in the Bull City. The also have an Amazon wishlist that makes getting books to young bulls as simple as possiBULL. For more information on donating books click HERE.
Additional ways to expand young Bull City minds include hosting a book drive with your friends, family, church, volunteer organization, band, book club, knitting circle, coworkers, swim team, billiards buddies, beer buddies, sorority, fraternity, mom squad, carpool crew, parking garage posse, Instagram following, neighbors and/or group of undefined terms. Fundraising and volunteering are other options as well.
Today is a great day in the Bull City. A little girl opened a book and tomorrow she'll open another and then another. It's the millionth book the Book Harvest gave away, but it's just the beginning of her lifetime of reading. That, in and of itself, is valuaBULL beyond BULLief.
Book Harvest primary location is located at 2501 University Drive (in the Rockwood Shopping Center). They're open Monday - Saturday 9a - 5p.


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Almost Famous Gig Guide
Published: 10:30 AM February 6, 2008
Thursday HIGH Society – Gem Nightclub, North Street, Peterborough, 8pm-2am, over-18s only. 01733 563300. Friday PETE The Soulman – The Bulls Head, St Neots, from 9pm. SYMPTOM, rock band – Lord Protector, Huntingdon, from 8.30pm. THE Kurmujun – The Hay
HIGH Society - Gem Nightclub, North Street, Peterborough, 8pm-2am, over-18s only. 01733 563300.
PETE The Soulman - The Bulls Head, St Neots, from 9pm.
SYMPTOM, rock band - Lord Protector, Huntingdon, from 8.30pm.
THE Kurmujun - The Haymakers, Chesterton High Street, Cambridge, 9pm.
DELTA Saxophone Quartet plus guest Hugh Hopper - Cambridge Modern Jazz Club, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Castle Street, 7.30pm, £16-£8. 01223 511511.
HEMINGFORD Ladies' Choir - Valentine's Concert at Hemingford Abbots Village Hall. 7.30pm. Mystery artist. Tickets, £8, includes chocolate fountain, nibbles and glass of wine or soft drink. Proceeds Macmillan, from 01480 434906 or 461884.
THE R'n'B Band -The Anchor, Little Paxton, from 9pm.
JOE Public, rock and blues band - The Lord Protector, Huntingdon, from 8.30pm.
THE Soulman - The George and Dragon, Eaton Socon, from 8.30pm.
ORGAN recital by John Dillistone - All Saints' Church, Huntingdon, 7.30pm, £5/£4 on the door. 01480 455573.
HANDEL'S Samson - St Ives Choral Society, Free Church, St Ives, 7.30pm. 01487 841029.
VALENTINES concert with the Hemingford Ladies Choir - Hemingford Abbots Village Hall, 7.30pm, £8 including refreshments. 01480 434906.
LIVE music at The Territorial, Huntingdon, over-18s, no entry after 10.30pm.
MATT Harvey singer/guitarist - Floods Tavern, Broadway, St Ives, from 8pm-11pm 01480 467773.
MATT Harvey - Floods Tavern, St Ives, from 2.30pm-5pm.
THIS Joint is Jumpin', The Life and Music of Fats Waller starring John Petters and His Rhythm - The Haycock, Peterborough, 2.30pm, £10. 0800 4960673.
LUNCHTIME live music in the lounge from 2pm-5pm with solo singer/guitarist Ian. In the evening, the Sunday sessions with local DJs and guests. The Lord Protector, Huntingdon. 01480 454720.
KATRIONA Gilmore and Jamie Roberts - St Neots Folk Club meeting, The King's Head Hotel, South Street, St Neots, 8.15pm-11pm., £7/£6 on the door.


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Turning Reductivism Inside Out: Dannielle Tegeder and the Art of Incompletion
by Barry Schwabsky
What follows is a section excerpted from Barry Schwabsky's essay, "Structures of Possibility," which was in turn a contribution to the monograph on Dannielle Tegeder issued by the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College earlier this year. The book documents the exhibition, "Dannielle Tegeder: Painting in the Extended Field," curated by the museum's director, Tracy L. Adler, Director, that took place in the Summer of 2013. This post belongs to a series at artcritical, called "extract," which acknowledges significant exhibitions of emerging and mid-career artists taking place around the United States, mostly in collegiate and alternative venues, beyond the purview of our regular critical coverage and dispatches.
Installation view of the wall drawing Ondam and Fractured Floating City (foreground) of Dannielle Tegeder: Painting in the Extended Field at the Wellin Museum of Art, 2013
Although most of the painters who were grouped under the rubric of conceptual abstraction have continued to work productively in the subsequent decades, it was never recognized as a dominant form of contemporary art-making. Other trends garnered more attention: the in-your-face figurative painting of John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage; the topical art rooted in identity politics, feminism, and queer theory of Glenn Ligon or the early work of Sue Williams; and the relational aesthetics of artists like Félix González-Torres and Rirkrit Tiravanija, to name a few. For all that, the issues raised by conceptual abstraction never went away, and to one degree or another, they continued to be a (not always acknowledged) stimulus to the efforts of younger artists such as Matthew Ritchie, Mark Bradford, Julie Mehretu, Kristin Baker, and others — and such as Dannielle Tegeder, one of the most interesting in this tendency and the subject of this exhibition.
In a sense, Tegeder turns the guiding intuition — what some might call the ideology — of the reductivist tradition inside out: This intuition tells the artist that as more and more of what had formerly been the matter of art could be jettisoned, that is, as the work came closer and closer to arriving at some concentrated essence, the fuller and more powerful it would be; the fewer elements it could have, the more complete it would be. What Tegeder realizes — perhaps more than any of the other artists who have emerged from the semi-secret tradition of so-called conceptual abstraction—is the rather frightening corollary of the reductivist intuition, which is that when the artwork is complexified, stratified, and subjected to what Stephen Westfall called the "ongoing cultural condition of hyper-contextualization," then the work loses its grip on any sense of completion, of wholeness, and becomes ever more fragmented, contradictory, underdetermined, and irrational (in the way an irrational number, such as pi, turns out to be endless). A certain arbitrariness comes into play.
In a condition that embraces complexity and hyper-referentiality, any particular work seems always to point beyond itself, not only to the real world, but to its systemic relations with other works; the work that does not complete itself within its frame links up with others. Thus, Tegeder's paintings (including paintings on paper) do not communicate a sense of formal containment; their multiplicity of rectilinear elements rarely re-mark or echo the containing edges of the rectangular panel or paper support, nor do they reiterate its flatness. But, neither do they conjure a self-consistent fictional world. Instead, a plurality of diagrammatic spaces seems to be overlaid in such a way that they hold each other in place, however precariously, without actually cohering. That this represents a distinctly dystopian attitude is clear from some of Tegeder's titles, such as Monument to the Geo-Chemistry After Structure with Yellow DISTURBANCE Code and Disaster Averter and Atomic Station (2009) or Puriamond: Cascade System of Destruction & Explosions (2007); a different kind of irony can be detected in Instructions for Utopian Gray World Machine & Copper Inner Structure (2007) where the self-evident contradiction in the phrase "utopian gray" seems to comment on how the dynamic élan of an El Lissitzky might have devolved into the quietist stasis of Gerhard Richter's gray, which, as he has said, "makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph. It has the capacity that no other color has, to make 'nothing' visible." This gray does after all represent a kind of opening, but only insofar as it is anything but utopian.
Dannielle Tegeder, Ondam. click for full caption
Tegeder would probably agree with Richter in this, but the saturnine gravity that comes perhaps all too easily to him is not her way. Her art may evoke disturbance and destruction, but in a strangely playful way: There may always be some disaster afoot, but no disaster is ever total. Some fundamentally constructive energy remains to keep things afloat. Richter admitted that his art had to work through to beauty, but it had to be, he specified, "not a carefree beauty, but rather a serious one." Tegeder, by contrast, finds a carefree beauty in serious ideas. There are still, as another of her titles would have it — this time of a multipart painting from 2011 — Structures of Possibility.
In fact, incompleteness and self-contradiction seem to be the very basis of possibility, as this work suggests. None of the five parts of Structures of Possibility completes any of the others; each one, by introducing new colors, new shapes, new vectors of energy that could not have been anticipated through one's perception of the other four, affirms that each, on its own, harbors visual possibilities that could only have been manifested in concert with the others and not separately. In a sense, such a work might have been extended indefinitely, incorporating ever more elements, ever more contexts. But a sufficient point of completion has arrived when the work succeeds in intimating its own infinite expandability; to go further would have been redundant. In this sense, Tegeder's work cultivates the fragment — yet makes a system of it,
an ensemble that is more than a simple juxtaposition of unrelated parts.
Chocolate Utopian Underground City with Yellow Inner Structure Station with Square Grid under Construction Safety Chrysalis and Abandon Square Habitat with White Expulsion Area and Central White Mine Tunnel Transportation Center, 2003. Ink, watercolor, pencil, colored pencil, felt-tip pen, synthetic polymer paint, and gouache on colored paper, 54½ x 78 inches. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
What is true of the parts of a painting is true of Tegeder's oeuvre as a whole, which includes not only painting but so many other kinds of things. It is easy to see that her sculptures might almost be concatenations of forms extracted from the diagrammatic linear webs found in her paintings and expanded three-dimensionally — yet always, I think, holding out the possibility for further expandability still, so that one always tends to see these sculptures both as works in and of themselves and as models for constructions that might exist on some vast cosmic scale as in Suspended Galaxy System (2010) or, yet again, of phenomena that might already exist on a molecular scale. The sculptures thus reveal the paintings to contain possibilities that could never be realized pictorially but this does not mean that the sculptures themselves constitute some ultimate realization. They too suggest possibilities yet unrealized, perhaps unrealizable: They are indeed "forecast machines," as the title of one (Traveling Forecast Machine with Octave Construction, 2009) would have it. The Library of Abstract Sound (2009) extracts, not three-dimensional forms, but sounds, occurring in the fourth dimension of time, born from the ostensibly two dimensions of paintings on paper. In doing so Tegeder imposes a new kind of incompletion on visual forms: Until we not only see them but hear them, do we really know them?
The titles of Tegeder's earlier works point to another dimension of the artwork's incompletion: language — and by supplying the missing element, the incompletion is not remedied but magnified. Few artists have ever used such long titles; take for example a piece from 2004, Alitipia: Community Under Construction with Jumbo Love Dot Boiler; Six Safety Vessel Stations, Containing Habitats and Rainbow Structures; Five Square Two High Rises; Dangling Safety Chrysalis; Abandoned Oz City; Side Room with Circle Storage Nexus; Interconnecting Underground Transportation Network with Abandoned Square Tower Blue Day Time Underground Water City, with Multi-Square Housing Project and Side Village with Hidden Headquarters and White Circle Plan Streamer with Airline Resistant Habitat Structures and Secret Square Gardens. It's as though every time an element is added, it conjures the necessity of adding still another. Again, the point is not even to follow this through to exhaustion but only far enough to imply inexhaustibility. Even if Tegeder's titles have grown less profusely elaborate, they remain no less essential to her work. She has used various methods and, as she calls them, "literary games" in their invention. "I keep a large jar in the studio where I collect found text that I later use in titles," she explains. "I also cut up hundreds of actual city names and recombine them into new fictional city names, then create anagrams from the materials and colors in the works." Affinities with Burroughs and Cage, Surrealism and Oulipo are hardly accidental. No wonder that she has also used language independently of its functionality in titling, treating it as an artistic substance in itself, in the form of books. But this brings me to the threshold of another dimension of Tegeder's work, a threshold which this is not the occasion for me to cross: One more reminder that with this artist, the structures of possibility are never finished. Something can still be done with Modernism to the extent that it keeps building itself by taking itself apart.
Iterations: Dannielle Tegeder in conversation with Sharmistha Ray
Geoffrey Dorfman: "The painting is telling you exactly what it needs."
Sound Waves: The Paintings of Ann Walsh
Gina Werfel's Persistence of Vision
The Figure as Hieroglyph: Nancy Spero's "First Language"
More articles by Barry Schwabsky
"One Thing Follows Another": John Ashbery, Art Critic What Made Richard Hamilton So Different, So Appealing? Craig Fisher
Le Commandeur: Tribute to Alain Kirili, 1946-2021Podcast of October's edition of The Review PanelThe Review Panel is this Tuesday, October 16Jenny Saville ROUNDTABLE: Julie Heffernan, Brenda Zlamany, Dennis Kardon, Walter Robinson, Barry Schwabsky, and Suzy SpenceIterations: Dannielle Tegeder in conversation with Sharmistha RayThe Beholder's SharePerceptual Inventory: A New Anthology by Barry SchwabskyMarch 2014: Barry Schwabsky , Nora Griffin and Drew Lowenstein with moderator David CohenToo Smart To Be Caught In A System: Barry Schwabsky's Words for ArtSitting Still on the Brink of Sandy: Nick Miller Paints a Portrait
Never Trust a Laura Newman Vertical
Other articles in "extract"
Sound Waves: The Paintings of Ann Walsh "The Balthus of Swingers?" Glenn O'Brien on Walter Robinson Shape of Play: Sculpture by Don Porcaro Geoffrey Dorfman: "The painting is telling you exactly what it needs."


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Gympie Regional Council
Gympie Regional Council was formed in 2008 by the amalgamation of Cooloola and Kilkivan Shires and the southern part (30%) of Tiaro Shire. Cooloola Shire had been formed in 1993 by the amalgamation of Gympie City and Widgee Shire.
Gympie Regional Council extends inland from the coast of Cooloola National Park for about 150 km, and its north-south extremities are Theebine and the approach to Kenilworth. The constituent shires' contributions to the new regional council were:
(sq km)
Cooloola 2967 36,067
Kilkivan 3264 3451
Tiaro (part) 667 ~1900
Totals 6898 ~41,400
The North Coast railway (1889) passes through the regional council area and at Gympie there was a branch line into the forest-plantation and farm towns of Kandanga and Imbil. Further north, another branch runs west to Kilkivan (1886) and on to Goomeri and Kingaroy (1902, 1904).
The northern continuation of the Connondale Range, the Jimna Range, separated Kilkivan and Cooloola Shires. The range and the undulating westwards grazing lands support mainly beef herds.
Gympie is the main centre for wholesale and retail distribution, and accounted for 56% of employment in those industries in the former Cooloola Shire. The other 44% was found in Tin Can Bay, Rainbow Beach, the Mary Valley towns such as Imbil and other villages.
The median ages of the population in 2011 was 43 years, compared with 37 for Australia. The older rural population and the attraction of retirement places like Cooloola Cove were underlying causes.
Gympie Regional Council's census population has been:
Cooloola and Kilkivan Shires and Gympie entries


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Google Goes After Groupon, Changes Their Algorithm (Again), & More
Google Wants Groupon, But Does Groupon Want Google?
Some people at Google are balking at the company's reported $6 billion bid for the rapidly expanding Groupon, a Chicago-based company that offers subscribers discount coupons to local businesses. However, compared to the money Google spent buying YouTube ($1.65 billion) and DoubleClick ($3.1 billion), the acquisition of Groupon could be seen as a bargain akin to some of those offered by the site.
YouTube and DoubleClick were drawing in around $11 million and $310 million per year, respectively, when Google came knocking with an offer. In contrast, Groupon's estimated yearly revenue is close to $1 billion, which could be a viable reason why the online startup is biding their time with Google's offer. It'll be interesting to see how this all shakes out, and if Groupon is actually able to raise Google's asking price or bring in more expensive competition.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
Google Changes Algorithm To Figure In Positive And Negative Customer Reviews
Thanks largely to a New York Times expose on crazed online sunglasses retailer Vitali Borker and his "there's no such thing as bad publicity" philosophy, Google has tweaked its page rank algorithm to factor in positive and negative reviews of online retailers.
Borker rode hoards of negative reviews and link publicity on popular consumer watchdog sites such as Rip-Off Report and Get Satisfaction to the top of Google's SERPs, often ranking above the actual brand's web site. He did this by constantly harassing and threatening customers that were not satisfied with his products, thus producing online criticism that had a reverse effect on his web hits and profit margins.
This guy is a genius, psycho, or both, but the NYT story is definitely worth reading.
Source: Tech Crunch
European Agencies Wave Good-bye To AdWords Reps, And Say Hello To Online Support
Google will kick off 2011 by severing the relationships between AdWords representatives and European agencies. Should those companies have questions, comments, or problems, they are now directed to the "Contact Us" button in AdWords or a call center.
By doing this in Europe (and to a lesser extent in the United States), Google saves money, but is also claiming they are committed to making the online support resources efficient and of high quality. This move does have the potential to backfire depending on the reactions from Yahoo and Bing, and if those agencies turned off by this development decide they are worth more time and money than Google.
Google AdWords Introduces Click Type Report
Click Type is the newest feature in Google AdWords, and it separates different click statistics into a tabled format. It's pretty self-explanatory, but convenient nonetheless, and the screen shot below provides a great visual:
Leaderboard Ads Are Unveiled In Google Image Searches
Google AdWords has rolled out their Leaderboard Ads in a banner format at the top of Google Image search results, to the tune of low click-through rates. However, this is still a beta, so things could change quickly.
Source: JoannaLord.com
YouTube Announces TrueView Ads
The new TrueView Video Ads on YouTube, and introduced in the Google AdWords blog, allow users to choose which ads they want to watch and when they prefer to watch them in conjunction with their chosen video.
The TrueView Ads also offer a cost-per-view format, which according to Google, "(offers) a cost-per-view video ad model is good for everyone: consumers choose ads that are more relevant to them; you more precisely find the audiences you want; and content creators continue to fund great content with an ad experience that is less intrusive."
Source: Google AdWords
'Yahoo Clues' Us In
The beta for the new Yahoo Clues allows users to explore and compare trending data and searches on Yahoo. It is especially interesting because the data is broken up by demographics, income of the searcher, and peak search times. Try it out for yourself at clues.yahoo.com.
Source: Practical E-Commerce
Compare Amazon's Prices To Retail On Your iPhone
Amazon has launched a new iPhone app that allows users to compare prices on Amazon.com or other e-commerce sites to those in retail stores.
The app is called Price Check, and just asks that you scan an item's bar code, take a photo, or say the name of the item in question. The app then lists the results in standard lowest to highest cost format.
It'll be interesting to see how this affects retailers, especially with the record boom of Cyber Monday and increasing popularity of online shopping.
Source: Mobile Commerce Daily
Microsoft TV Could Be On The Horizon
Microsoft is reportedly engaging in early discussions of joining the world of television by offering a monthly subscription to Xbox users that would allow them to watch programs from various networks such as ABC, FOX, CNN, and NBC. Microsoft could also potentially offer programming packages or an interactive experience that would allow users to chat with friends over the Xbox while watching a show.
Source: Yahoo Finance
Milwaukee FBI Agent Nabs 'Spam King'
A Milwaukee FBI agent has busted a 23-year-old Russian man dubbed the "King of Spam," because of his hand in roughly 30% of the Spam email industry. Authorities have been tracking Oleg Nikolaenko since 2007, and finally moved in after he entered the country on his way to a car show in Las Vegas. Nikolaenko is set to make his first appearance in a Milwaukee court today.
Source: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Cyber Monday Finally Reaches Full Potential With $1 Billion Spent
While Cyber Monday has been a very busy day for online retailers since its inception five years ago, it has failed to live up to the colossal hype surrounding it. Not only has it not been the busiest online shopping day, it has also failed to be the busiest Monday.
That all changed this year with online retailers reporting that sales for Cyber Monday broke the billion dollar mark. Reports suggest that the sales increase could be the result of more people going back to work on Friday and the ability to access the Internet from work computers. While it is not mentioned in the short write up, it would be interesting to see how purchases made from mobile devices impacted the record breaking day for online shopping.
Google's Entrance Into Social Networking With GoogleMe Has Been Delayed
Expected to roll out by the end of this year or early 2011, Google's planned social media platform, GoogleMe, has been pushed back to an unspecified date. Mashable reports that there is nothing current to update the progress and that the delay is due to an "internal disagreement about the design, purpose and execution of the project."
iPad Prices Cut For Black Friday
On Black Friday, there were amazing amounts of tech gadgets that had their prices slashed. The biggest, however, was Apple's iPad, which sold for $41 less than the regular price.
This 5-8% price cut, depending on which model you're talking about, is big news for a company that rarely puts their higher end products on sale. It is also an interesting move considering that the iPad is one of the most sought after gadgets this holiday season.
The sale was only good on the Friday after Thanksgiving and was available in Apple's retail locations only.
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George W. Bush On Facebook
Former President George W. Bush has been on the promotional trail for his memoir, "Decision Points," for the past several months. Last Monday, he stopped over at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto to participate in one of their Live Events, where users are allowed to ask questions.
The 43rd President of the United States was interviewed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and was the first president to participate in such an event.
Sources: CNN, Mashable
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Groupon: Why Google Wants To Buy Us
Read this interesting take from Groupon's managing director in the UK, Chris Muhr, about why he believes that Google is making them offers.
Analysis By: Richard Tyler, The Telegraph
Being Bad For Your Customers Is Bad For Business
Read about how Google changed their policies to thwart a businessman that ranked very well in searches due to getting an incredible amount of links from negative customer reviews. The power of Google never fails to surprise me.
Analysis By: Amit Singhal, The Official Google Blog
Who Spies On Your Browsing History?
If you believe that there isn't someone watching what you do on the internet, think again. Check out this short but informative article about your browsing history and who's looking at it.
Analysis By: Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing
Five Helpful Tips To Make Your Video Viral
Based on the recent smashing success of the Old Spice's ad campaign, Searchengineland.com offers five tips to help make your video a viral success.
Analysis By: Eric Papczun, Search Engine Land
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Richard Rosser on key issues coming up in the Immigration Bill
The purpose of the Bill, according to the Explanatory Notes, "is to tackle illegal immigration by making it harder to live and work illegally in the United Kingdom", with an intention that "without access to work, illegal immigrants will depart voluntarily".
A key part of the government's measures to achieve these objectives were debated earlier this week, when Labour Peers voiced our strong concerns about the new criminal offence of illegal working for employees without the required immigration status to be in the UK.
This is an offence for which there can be no defence. Criminalising the individual worker, while failing to go after the employer will almost certainly lead to fewer whilstleblowers on illegal exploitation. The fear of arrest, criminal charges and twelve months in prison will mean it is even less likely that those being exploited in the labour market will come forward to report their abusers.
Today, on the second day of Committee, we will be discussing another measure in the Bill purportedly designed to create a hostile environment for those without the required immigration status. The government are making it a criminal offence to rent or lease residential accommodation to people in this position. But once again this is an issue of unintended consequences, and likely to increase discrimination in the rental market against those who do not have a British passport and have a foreign sounding name. Landlords will not want to run the risk of falling foul of the offence.
We will also debate our own amendment seeking to reverse the government's 2012 visa changes for overseas domestic workers. This rule change has resulted in many such workers being effectively 'tied' to their employer by their visa, unable to change jobs without deportation and therefore more vulnerable to exploitation by their employer.
An independent review instigated by the government has recently been published. It concludes that the existence of a tie to a specific employer, and the absence of a universal right to change employer and apply for extensions of the visa, are incompatible with a reasonable protection of overseas domestic workers while here. All of this is clearly not in line with the declared purpose and intention of the Bill.
In addition, we will debate our amendment to allow asylum seekers to work if they are still awaiting a decision on their application after six months.
It remains to be seen if the debates on these various issues will simply confirm the government's harder line towards those already in this country and its view that illegal immigrants will simply 'depart voluntarily' if the right measures are in place. Either way, Labour Peers will continue to argue for a controlled but fair system.
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League rival Forest won the Jacks Division (top tier, also with seven teams) with an overtime win over another league foe, Guelph.
Mitchell proved no doubt they were the class of their division, outscoring their opponents 34-11 over seven games, winning five and skating to a 2-2 tie in another during round robin play which gave them a bye to the championship. Mitchell defeated Oshawa 7-3 in the championship Sunday afternoon, breaking open a 1-1 tie with two goals late in the first half and adding two more in the first two-and-a-half minutes of the second half to cruise to victory.
Emma Bryans and Kaylin Rose – the one-two punch offensively – paced the win in the final as Bryans had a hat trick and an assist, while Rose had two goals and two assists. Chloe Lewis and Rylie Dietz also scored.
Rose was the division's top scorer with 7-12-19 totals in seven games while Bryans was the top goal scorer, with 12, and added five assists for 17 points.
Meanwhile, tight defence played a huge role as well with goaltender Rachel Van Bakel allowing just 1.5 goals per game.
Lewis's second goal of the game with just over six minutes left was the winner as Mitchell opened the tournament with a 2-1 win over London last Thursday. Rose had a hat trick to pace their next win, a 6-1 triumph over Gloucester Cumberland, with Nicki Van Bakel and Dietz also finding the net. Friday's action began with a 7-1 rout of Cambridge as Nicki Van Bakel had a hat trick. Bryans had two goals with Emily Anstett and Dietz picking up singles. In their tie with Ajax, Bryans scored both goals.
Bryans and Dietz both scored twice to pace the 4-1 win over Oshawa on the round robin's final day last Saturday, with Rose and Nicki Van Bakel each adding two assists. Finally, to wrap up pool play, a six-goal first half was enough to down Sault Ste. Marie 6-2. Bryans had three goals and Rose had two goals and four assists to lead the offence once again. Lewis also found the net.
Other team members include Emily Alexander, Ally O'Rourke, Erin Bjelan, Katie Brine, Jaci Mitchell and Julia Deck. Craig Hennessey was the head coach, assisted by Emily Neubrand. Kim Alcock was the trainer.
The team was also given the sportsmanship award, voted on by other teams in their division.
The Mitchell-Seaforth Newtech Ag U12's finished their regular season with a convincing 13-3 win over Tillsonburg on Saturday.
Savannah Tracey and Marcy Towton both had hat tricks to pace the balanced attack while Khallee Eisler and Mallory Feeney both chipped in with two-goal efforts. Jaci Van Bakel, Emma Alce and Addisyn Brown also found the net. Eisler had three assists while Van Bakel and Towton both had a pair.


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It drives me nuts to not understand what's being said. Even worse, to use words I don't understand, repeating them by rote. So I've tried my best to make sense of the terminology around Aikido. In most cases the explanations I give will simply be my own understanding of the meanings, tricks I use for remembering them, etc.
Disclaimer: These posts are as accurate as I can make them, but all are informally based on my own very limited understanding. I will try to give some indication of how sure I am of what I'm saying, and if I'm just plain wrong please tell me so (and if appropriate I'll go back and correct things). Any pronunciation tips I give will only be for how I've heard them spoken in the context of training, not The Correct Japanese Pronunciation. In no case should anything in these posts be considered authoritative. I do hope it will be helpful, though!
When I know of solid sources of information I point those out. There are a few very good books, websites, and podcasts, both for learning Aikido-specific terminology, and for learning to speak Japanese. If you want to go deeper, please take advantage of them.
Words: Huh? What's Everyone Saying? First words you hear around the dojo.
6th Kyu Words Piecing together basic technique names.
Weapons Words – The Big Picture A place to begin with weapons words.
How To Learn to Count Out Loud to 31 in Japanese, Under Pressure, and with Distractions For anyone with Saito Sensei's 31 jo kata coming up on their exam!
Coming someday… More attack and technique-related words.
Coming someday… Names of things around the dojo.
Coming someday… Weapons technique names.
Coming someday… Commonly-heard Japanese greetings and phrases.
Hi. My name is Linda Eskin. In May of 2009, at age 46, I began practicing Aikido to improve my horsemanship. It's become about much more than that for me.
Aikido is a Japanese martial art. It's not about fighting. It's about being aware and responsive, not defensive or reactive. We learn to work with others and with circumstances, rather than opposing them. The lessons from Aikido permeate my life. Our training applies as much off the mat as on it.
I speak from my own experiences – technical and philosophical, physical and spiritual. I discuss training and writing, learning and teaching, seminars and meditation, freedom and discipline. Underneath it all, it's about connecting, with ourselves and others.
Everything I say here is just what I say. Don't believe me. Find out for yourself at a dojo near you.


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What was (or will be) the hardest healthy/unhealthy thing for you to wrestle today? fighting the desire to hibernate in my warm toasty livingroom tonight instead of cooking myself dinner.
What was (or will be) the easiest healthy thing for you to conquer today? getting together my weekly grocery list for shopping tomorrow- I LOVE THIS PART!!
What was your biggest victory today? 60 minutes of Pilates- ow it hurts so good!
Took time to relax and manage stress? it's on the menu for this evening!
Any funny/happy/inspiring/silly-spouse/holiday story you'd like to share?
What was (or will be) the hardest healthy/unhealthy thing for you to wrestle today?Getting all my water in today, again!!
Was there a battle raging in your mind back and forth at some point?I really wanted some of my co-workers french fries. I mean bad. Who won?? ME!!
What was your biggest victory today? Finding time to eat small snacks today, I was really busy at work, no time for lunch. Did not want to get famished and make bad choices.
Finishing 56 minutes of plyometrics!!
Took time to relax and manage stress? Trying to decompress right now.
"Just remember, you can do anything once you have practiced it 200 times."
Took time to relax and manage stress?
What was (or will be) the hardest healthy/unhealthy thing for you to wrestle today?
What was (or will be) the easiest healthy thing for you to conquer today?
Candy was passed out at my final! I just took one Hershey Kiss. Almost two- but I didn't give in!
Was there a battle raging in your mind back and forth at some point? Who won??
You know that Chick-fil-a I wanted yesterday? Well- I had it today! But I planned- and MAN it was GOOOD!!
What was your biggest victory today?
Took time to relax and manage stress? Always! Honestly no, but I'm going to bed early..does that count?
I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday!
Were you ambushed? No! How??
What was your biggest victory today? I talked to my team leader and she pointed out things that would help me meet my weight goal. Most informative!
Reward yourself? Yes, I took a short nap!
A co-worker from Education gifted me with a small bag of sweet chex mix and peanuts ("puppy chow"). I thanked her and set it on my desk, thinking I might take it home for my DH, but by mid-afternoon it was calling my name. I walked it down the hall and gave it to another co-worker here in the Physics hall.
Got home late from yoga, stopped off for a vegetarian unwich (wrapped in lettuce leaf, instead of bread) from Jimmy John's. And there were cookies in the house and they were tempting me. I said no and went and took a long hot bath.
What was (or will be) the easiest healthy thing for you to conquer today? going to an aerobics class on my lunch hour and my favorite yoga class in the evening (80 minutes worth).
Was there a battle raging in your mind back and forth at some point? constantly Who won?? I did!
My DH was talking big about keeping our adult children from going in to too much drama at our family holiday gathering and he used my new workout program as a reference. He said, "well, you can get your "ChaLEAN" on!"
"Yoga is a powerful vehicle for change. As you build strength, you start to believe in your own potential."
What was (or will be) the hardest healthy/unhealthy thing for you to wrestle today? getting all my water in.
Was there a battle raging in your mind back and forth at some point?Did not want to work out this morning. Who won?? Me!!!
What was your biggest victory today? Staying within my goals today even though I have been hungry all day!!??!?
Did strength? kinda, strength and cardio mix today.
Reward yourself? yes a tiny bit of chocolate toffee.
Took time to relax and manage stress? chilled on couch after work.
lmao @ FERRET! they are so cute! like Nature's version of the Slinky!
Took time to relax and manage stress? I have no stress!
Was there a battle raging in your mind back and forth at some point? who won?? should have gone for morning walk....will try to compensate in evening walk..
What was (or will be) the hardest healthy/unhealthy thing for you to wrestle today? had to finish ironing almost half of my closet i was tired as hell!!
The hardest part for me today was that my family took me out for dinner to Five Guys Burgers and Fries. Wow, that is a ton of food!
The easiest healthy thing was working out today. Had an appt with trainer, so I had to show up!
Yes, I was ambushed at the restaurant. Had never been there before, didn't know what I was ordering and there was a lot of food!
Yes, whether to have a cupcake tonight when I got home. I unfortunately did not win.
My biggest victory... got all of my water in, which is a miracle!
Calories for the day ????
With God I can do anything, including losing weight!
Getting in all my goals.. I just started tracking sodium- EESH! Gone over, and over.. and over! Also- exercise. Didn't do any today- I studied!
Drinking water! It's the one thing I'm always good at!
Only thing that happened was my bf made dinner when I had planned on having something- but its okay, cos he knows about Spark and makes healthy stuff!
I really want some Chik-Fil-A. It's my favorite. But- it's just not worth it 99% of the time! I WON!
Fitness minutes for the day: Just some brisk walking while shopping. Maybe 10 minutes?
Reward yourself? Had my one serving of ice cream!
Took time to relax and manage stress? Always! I am right now :) Watching Seinfeld & laying on the couch!
My old personal trainer from February of this year e-mailed me.. I spread the spark and felt so proud to tell her how I was doing!!
What was (or will be) the hardest healthy/unhealthy thing for you to wrestle today? just staying on track food wise. I am craving junk.
Were you ambushed? No. How??
Was there a battle raging in your mind back and forth at some point?yes, I had a very hard run today and the voice in my head kept telling me to stop before I was done. Who won?? ME!!!
What was your biggest victory today? Finishing my run without giving up.
Stopped at a gas station during work, had to choose something healthy. Fumbled and got a 300 calorie little pack of peanuts, geez!!
Once I realized just how healthy Subway salads are, that's an easy daily choice now for my lunch!
I REEEEALLY wanted some fried food at the gas station... An egg roll or pizza puff or something... But I won!
Hit all four goals for my nutrition today!
Last weigh-in: Today - 304.2lbs (down 2.4 from last week!
Took time to relax and manage stress? Always!
If a chubby guy like Mario can run and jump all around the mushroom kingdom, I can certainly do this!
Were you ambushed? How?? Yes, found cookies!
Was there a battle raging in your mind back and forth at some point? Who won?? Yes. The cookies!
What was your biggest victory today? I did not go over my calorie count.
What was (or will be) the hardest healthy/unhealthy thing for you to wrestle today? EATING-I'm too broke to get breakfast or lunch today, so I had a plain wheat bagel for breakfast, drank water all day and I'm going to cook myself a great meal when I get home.
What was (or will be) the easiest healthy thing for you to conquer today? definitely a basic rule, I'm going to get all my water today and I already did my weights, so thats easy because it's DONE.
oooooooooooh we're getting close! We are on the doorstep of the biggest holiday of the year! The only way to make it through is to keep ourselves just as disciplined on and after the holiday as we are before it. SO I am combining the next two weeks into one challenge. Instead of having a weekly template, I am going to post a template that you can use for the day. The next day you post, you post the template again and fill it out. It will save us from having to scroll all the way down and edit our old ones, etc. It is also so you don't feel like alot of your template looks sorry and empty because you were busy for several days around Christmas, etc.
We can do it! But we need to make sure that we are solid in keeping ourselves on track BEFORE the insantiy comes crashing down on us!
So, in the spirit of conquering the little animals inside our tummies and brains that wreak havoc every season, we are going to have a two part challenge aimed at keeping ourselves aware of the big game moments that can throw us completely off track, or keep our eyes focused on the prize.
Part One is simple questions to answer each day. You can answer them at the beginning of the day, so you can commit yourself to doing well throughout the day. OR you can answer them at the end of the day, or the next morning, as an accountability exercise. It's fully up to you!
Part Two is simple data entry. Posting your calories for the day, minutes exercised and I'm going to allow an optional weigh in (this is not mandatory, please don't feel obligated) for our last weigh in day (whenever that was for you) and two weeks from now. We all want to AT LEAST maintain for the holidays so let's try to do this together!
Don't forget to encourage each other on your spark pages, or by responding here in the forum.


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Answer the kitchen's call with a casual cookery course
by Angela Erika Kubo
Special To The Japan Times
While economic growth remains slow, many restaurants are feeling the pinch, as customers choose to stay home and cook in order to save money.
Ironically, this is good news for operators of cooking classes — and for one chain, business has never been better.
"We literally started off with just one gas range 30 years ago, but we grew by word of mouth," says Emi Sato, spokeswoman for ABC Cooking Studio, a chain of casual cooking schools that teaches everything from how to chop vegetables to how to bake your own bread.
"There was a time in which food guides and magazines were doing very well, but since the Lehman Shock and the March 11 (2011) earthquake and tsunami, people these days are now spending more time at home with their friends or loved ones," she adds.
Cooking at home does not have to mean eating boring meals, and the appeal of schools such as ABC is that they enable anyone to create something fantastic.
Stepping inside one of the schools unleashes an assault on the senses. The scent of bread fresh out of the oven and the crackling of vegetables and meat hitting the pan fill the air. The schools are located in easily accessible areas such as department stores, and are brightly lit and have large windows in order to attract new customers and showcase the students' creations — many of which look tasty enough to be served at a bakery or a restaurant.
The classes may seem pricey at first glance. A set of 12 beginner lessons, which expire after 18 months, will set you back ¥59,850, or roughly ¥5,000 per lesson. More advanced courses cost ¥92,610 for 12 lessons, though one-off lessons and even kids' classes are available.
As Sato explains, budding household chefs are willing to dish out that much money if they feel that the investment is worth it.
"Cooking is considered a type of naraigoto (a hobby for which one takes lessons during free time), an investment for oneself. The way people spend their money has changed since the collapse of the bubble economy. Now people want to spend their money on something that will enrich themselves," says Sato.
In addition, naraigoto hobbies have also been gaining popularity as a stress-busting escape from Japan's hectic work life.
"Since changing my job I have more time for myself, so I want to invest it wisely here," says Kana Nagai, a 26-year-old flight attendant. "Registering with ABC means I can go to any of the studios in Japan, which fits well with my schedule since I have to travel around a lot."
For Nagai, who is in one part of Japan one day and in another part the next, ABC Cooking Studio is an ideal solution if she finds herself with a bit of extra free time in an unfamiliar city. With around 128 studios all over Japan from Hokkaido to Kagoshima and others in overseas cities such as Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing, ABC allows members to attend classes at any school they wish. The 25 locations in Tokyo include Kichijoji, Shibuya and Marunouchi.
Classes tend to be small, with one instructor for every two to four students. Even those who have yet to master the art of boiling water have nothing to fear, since the school allows students to choose an instructor to stand patiently by their side.
"Sometimes I fall behind in a lesson," says Mutsumi Yahagi, a co-worker of Nagai's, "but since I have the instructor right next to me, I can ask her questions easily."
The company also offers English-language lessons at its Plus International studio in Roppongi Midtown (2F Garden Terrace, Tokyo Midtown, 9-7-4 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo; 03-5413-3476) for expats and tourists who want to learn the basics of Japanese cooking.
Recently, the company has upgraded its studios in order to better keep up with the influx of students. One such studio is located in Shibuya (2F Shibuya Chikatetsu Bldg., 1-16-14 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; 03-5468-5121), and now boasts a corner where students can try their hand at concocting their own alcoholic cocktails. There's also another corner that displays over 80 different cards and sheets of wrapping paper for students who want to give their culinary creations to a special someone as a gift. Both services come with no extra charge. To celebrate its refurbishment, new members who join by March 31 will not have to pay the ¥12,600 admission fee, and the first 200 people to join will also receive free cooking utensils. You can register online or call 03-5468-5121.
And although cooking is traditionally considered a female pursuit, the interior of the Shibuya studio has been subdued to make it less intimidating for the growing number of men who are signing up for cooking classes. As of April, all schools in the chain will allow male customers, with some classes targeted specifically toward them.
www.abc-cooking.co.jp
More delicious lessons
ABC isn't the only cooking studio in town. If you're craving Thai food, check out Herb & Spice Asian Cooking Studio in Takadanobaba (305 Plage Takadanobaba, 1-5-14 Takadanobaba, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo); 03-5155-6528; www.asian-road.net) to learn from a native. Basic courses cost ¥5,500 per class. For Italian food lovers, Aprile in Kichijoji (3F Kyoritsu Bldg., 1-12-5 Kichijoji Honcho, Musashino-shi, Tokyo; 0422-20-2337; www.aprile.jp) teaches how to make favorite pasta dishes for ¥10,000 for two lessons. Antine Cooking Studio (048-474-7756; www.antine.jp) near Shiki Station in Saitama also offers bridal courses for ladies who need to learn a few kitchen tips fast.
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